Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

- Sanford Meisner

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

- Sanford Meisner

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

- Sanford Meisner

You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

- Sanford Meisner

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

- Sanford Meisner

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

- Sanford Meisner

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre …

- Sanford Meisner

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

- Sanford Meisner

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like yo…

- Sanford Meisner